Easton's Bible Dictionary

guest-chamber to the garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:39-46), which he and the other two who had been witnesses of the transfigurat ...

The time had come for Peter to leave Jerusalem. After labouring for some time in Samaria, he returned to Jerusalem, and reported ...

the Jews. It has been noticed that in the beginning of his epistle Peter names the provinces of Asia Minor in the order in which ...

PETER, SECOND EPISTLE OF The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence i ...

PHARAOH the official title borne by the Egyptian kings down to the time when that country was conquered by the Greeks. (See EGY ...

For about seventy years the Hebrews in Egypt were under the powerful protection of Joseph. After his death their condition was p ...

Among the most notable of the ancient kings of Egypt thus discovered were Thothmes III., Seti I., and Rameses II. Thothmes III. ...

original tomb, and probably carried from place to place till finally deposited in the cave where it was so recently discovered. ...

peacefully, but came to a sudden and disastrous end. The “Harris papyrus,” found at Medinet-Abou in Upper Egypt in 1856, a state ...

(11.) The Pharaoh by whom Josiah was defeated and slain at Megiddo (2 Chronicles 35:20-24; 2 Kings 23:29, 30). (See NECHO.) (12. ...

PHAREZ breach, the elder of the twin sons of Judah (Genesis 38:29). From him the royal line of David sprang (Ruth 4:18-22). “Th ...

her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “a succourer of many, and of myself also” (Romans 16:1, 2). PHENIC ...

important service to Solomon in connection with the planning and building of the temple, casting for him all the vessels for the ...

PHICOL great, the chief captain of the army of Abimelech, the Philistine king of Gerar. He entered into an alliance with Abraha ...

PHILETUS amiable, with Hymenaeus, at Ephesus, said that the “resurrection was past already” (2 Timothy 2:17, 18). This was a Gn ...

(4.) The “tetrarch of Ituraea” (Luke 3:1); a son of Herod the Great, and brother of Herod Antipas. The city of Caesarea-Philippi ...

of that church will never pass. To myriads of men and women in every age and nation the letter written in a dungeon at Rome, and ...

PHILISTIA =Palestine (q.v.), “the land of the Philistines” (Psalm 60:8; 87:4; 108:9). The word is supposed to mean “the land of ...

They are called Allophyli, “foreigners,” in the Septuagint, and in the Books of Samuel they are spoken of as uncircumcised. It w ...

PHLEGON burning, a Roman Christian to whom Paul sent salutations (Romans 16:14). PHOENICIA (Acts 21:2). (See PHENICIA.) PHRYGIA ...